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The ITB Berlin (International Tourism Exchange Berlin), the world’s largest travel exhibition, will be held at Messe Berlin in March. This year it will focus on “business travel in times of crisis”. For five days the whole world will meet at ITB Berlin: people who want to find the perfect destination and people working in the travel industry. Turkey is co-hosting this year’s ITB Berlin Convention.

ITB Berlin

Business trael has become as important as leisure travel and now it has become a fruitful pillar of the travel industry. For this reason, ITB Berlin focuses on the newest sector trends, its concepts and corporation possibilities. Another dominant feature of the ITB Berlin is “the European Capital of Culture RUHR 2010”. ITB Berlin’s director declared that ‘despite the difficult global economic situation, in 2015 demand still exceeds supply’, which will probably be noticed in the fair’s participation.
ITB Berlín will present a whole range of travel deals: tour operators, destinations, booking systems, communication & information systems providers, hotels and any thing a company or traveller could need. So it represents the perfect platform for companies and institutions of the whole travel world.
It will focus on all kinds of tourist segments: trends and events, cultural tourism, youth travel, economy accommodation, ECO tourism, experience adventure and expeditions, training & employment in tourism, travel technology, wellness, cruises and reservations. Especially you can find here very cheap hotels in Berlin, the deals are very inexpensive. The prices are fair.

Year after year, the ITB Fair in Berlin has gained prestige along with visitors. This edition will beat its attendance record with 11,000 exhibiting companies and organisations from around 180 different countries. It attracts nearly 125,000 visitors every year. This edition of ITB will house 35 exhibitors just for hotel fittings, sales promotion & advertising, organisational materials and services.
ITB Berlin is the perfect forum for conducting business and guarantees high-quality customer contacts. It also tries to produce links between markets and societies, companies and travellers and research and science.

There are many reasons for not missing ITB Berlin (Youtube ITB) , whether you have a travel company or not: during five days all the private visitors will discover new tourism trends and they will be able to get inspiration for their holidays. For the professionals, this fair gives the opportunity to promote itself because the organisation undertakes the corporate social responsibility as an overarching concept for sustainable corporate development in tourism.

Everyone is still talking about the global crisis which affects the economy, the bad management of the banks, the mortgages and the lack of work. Happily in this global catastrophe, the people have gone out on the streets to take over their own destiny, and thousands of groups of outraged people from around the world, from Cairo to New York, have let us all know that the system is obsolete, that itts time to reconsider that democracy as an axis of capitalism, that the governments controlled by ever-authoritative military powers and that the impunity of some politicians and companies cannot go any further.

There is a crisis just as alarming as the economical one, the one of natural resources in the world and the great harm that it is causing the Earth after too many years of indiscriminate extraction of natural resources. Deforestation, the disappearance of species, areas and communities destroyed by the extraction of minerals, water contamination and contamination by nuclear waste are just some of the great calamities that the planet is facing. Unfortunately, many of these harms are the result of the abuses made by private companies who, in the long term, aren’t penalized by the national or local governments who, instead, due to their political and, especially, economic interests, turn the page in everyone‘s face.
There are however various organizations on a local and international level who are in charge of taking care of nature and to denounce these atrocities. In the same way, itt‘s important that the food producers are aware of new ways to produce without harming the environment. There are many small and big companies that, today, are more aware on the production of food in an ecologic way.
And so, Grüne Woche, Green Week in English, is an international event in Berlin as well as an 80 year old tradition. During this week, the public, companies, organizations and producers, all related to agriculture and horticulture, as well as other products such as wines, cheeses, meats, bread and ecological bio-products, gather in an intense week where the food markets are discussed, where business exchange is possible, as well as raising awareness on the current situation regarding the food production in Europe. With representatives from around the world who carry out talks, seminars, conferences from political authorities and a lot of fun involved in sampling wine and other foods, Grüne Woche is definitely a place where you can meet people who are interested in the most select products and the most recent techniques in sustainable production. Recommended for all people of all ages. For more information on the event, tickets and timetables, visit the official webpage: Green Week/

Winter in Berlin is almost mythical, as many reject it, hate it, and they say so many negative things about winter in this great city. And it´s not just that the low temperatures and snow are some of the reasons why the Berlin winter feels so raw, but also the disappearance of light and the light gray skies that are usually constant during the colder months of the year. As is well known, in Berlin cultural activities do not end during these months, and there are many alternatives for your fun during your stay in this city. Of course, most options are outdoors, nevertheless they are an important incentive to learn about the German capital.

winter-berlin

Museums

For example, nothing is better than spending days and whole afternoons in the museums the city as well as its long list of galleries available. We recommend national museums, mostly located in the center of Berlin, in the popular Museum Island. We recommend the Pergamon Museum. If you love contemporary art, the Hamburger Bahnhof has Europe´s most important collections of modern and contemporary art. Very close to the museum, an interesting gallery district also awaits . Checkpoint Charlie is just another museum located in what was once the separation between East Berlin and West Berlin, and recounts the contradictions of the forgotten Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

International food

If you think the city will lack a place to enjoy delicious international cuisine you´re wrong. In Berlin you can find food from all continents and the best prices, the winter is the best season to eat calorie-laden treats. In its most popular districts like Friedrichstein, Mitte and Kreuzberg, your options range from Mediterranean cuisine, Vietnamese, Japanese, Indian, Chinese, Mexican, among many others. Of course, the streets still remain with classics vendors of kebabs, chips and currywurst, a classic dish of Berlin.

Public transport

Public transport in Berlin operates in an extremely orderly and timely way. You to party any night of the week, no matter how cold it is, you have a schedule of all the night buses that the city offers, you´ll go home without any problems. Of course, every day taxis are also available. Needless to say we recommend you leave home well prepared for the cold and have a good functional stove or heater to avoid the possibility of very cold nights.

Also, a balanced diet high in calories you will be favorable. That winter is no reason for you to stay at home. Berlin offers you many attractions throughout the year. For more information, visit the following website: http://www.visitberlin.de/

Looking to rent accommodation in Berlin apartments and enjoy this important city. Winter is not reason to stop visiting the German capital. In Berlin action continues during all four seasons.

will be the setting for The Berlin Easter Tango Festival – a homage to the popular Argentinian style of music which has widely influenced the worlds of literature, theatre and art. The concert takes place on the 23rd of August, with performances from German orchestras and invited Argentinian artists.

The festival hopes to satisfy an increasing interest in tango throughout Europe, where countless bars and clubs are playing host to musicians performing both classic and experimental styles of the genre. The Berlin festival is placing special emphasis on neo-tango, the new sounds which mix jazz and classical in an effort to attract fans of tango, young and old alike.

The sophistication and the development of tango music and dance is the theme of this marvellous festival, along with participation from Cantango Berlin and Buenos Aires Tangomasterdancers orchestras, and dancers Ester Duarte & Chiche Nuñez and Federico Farfaro & Liesl Bourke.

Tango was born around the end of the 19th century, amongst poor European emigrants in search of a better life in Buenos Aires. It was this illusion of a better life, coupled with the nostalgia for the old continent which would create the chemistry, and key to tango culture.

Tango is from the souls of the working classes, who would lament their bad luck through nostalgic guitar music. The words to the songs reveal a strong social spirit, and a passionate reaction to injustice.

In 1889, The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language recognised the work Tango, defining it as “the celebration and dance of the blacks.” 100 years later, due to its enormous popularity and influence on the arts, the definition changed to “Argentinian dance between two people, binary musical form, internationally known.”
Strangely enough, tango arrived first at the dance halls of Europe and North America, before reaching Argentina. The young Argentinian bourgeoisie would go down to the slums to meet women – and from their travels to Europe and the States would bring back the music which has been prohibited. In Paris society, tango provoked a frenzy, and it became all the rage in the 1920s.

Today the classic beat of 2×4 has been reinvented and reinterpreted many times, and many new instruments and sounds have been added – such as with fusion group Gotan Project. However, figures such as Carlos Gardel and Astor Piazzola continue to be the great icons of tango, with the first representing the macho, sexual side to tango iconography, and the latter famous for mixing the classic European style with the Argentinian passion.

Although during its life it enjoyed fame and prestige comparable to those of writers of its time like Scott Fitzgerald,Hemingway or Faulkner – who said hello to him as if he was probably the writer with the most talent of that generation – in whose celebrity the passing of time has hardly left a mark, what’s true is that for a few decades, despite a growing appreciation on behalf of the specialized critics that the increase that its work had on authors like Kerouac, Bradbury or Philip Roth, that the long ambitious books of Thomas Wolfe, dead prematurely before the age of 38 due to brain tuberculosis, have stopped being known outside certain select circles of exquisite palates.

As its reflected in his posthumous novel You Can’t Go Home Again, Wolfe passed most of the 30s in Berlin, a city that he adored, specifically until he found unbearable the growing persecution of the Jewish people by Nazi authorities, a policy that he reported in 1937 in the story I Have a Thing to Tell You, which won him the prohibition of his books in Germany, whose territory didn’t allow him entry from then on – he died a year later haunted by the memories of the place where he had managed to foresee happiness.

One of the most famous landscapes of You Can’t Go Home Again, idiomatic phrase that has become part of American language, was that in which he described the Olympic Games celebrated in the German capital in the summer of 1936, immortalized by the filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in his extraordinary and monumental film Olympia, in whose over four hours of duration they anticipate and prefigure a large part of the defining characteristics of the following television broadcasts of the Olympics.

Specifically, what’s striking is the way in which Wolfe refers to the impressive Olympic Stadium, or Olympiastadion, (http://www.olympiastadion-berlin.de) designed for the occasion by the architect Werner March, which faced by the contemplation of the narrator of the novel one has the imposing and majestic feeling of the unfolding of flags and Nazi symbols, of finding himself in front of the battle tent of a great emperor. Wolfe clearly perceived, despite that to avoid the boycott of the United States and other countries, the Nazi authorities eliminated the antisemitic signs from the media (they even included two athletes of partially hebrew blood in the men’s team) and they hid the expulsion of all the gypsies in Berlin, that what was going on there was far from just the games.

A reliable proof of that is the construction of the stadium and the colossal sporting complex, the Reichsportfeld or Reich’s Sports Fields, where one signed up, which you access it through two giant tower of 36 metres each, which today still hold the Olympic arches.